Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Encapsulated PACE Spacecraft Transported to Launch Pad

Encapsulated PACE Spacecraft Transported to Launch Pad

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Original – PACE spacecraft, encapsulated inside a Falcon 9 payload fairing, being transported to Space Launch Complex 40 on Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024

Reason

Vividly and accurately represents technologic efforts to monitor global environmental changes.

Articles in which this image appears

Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem

FP category for this image

link to category (listed on the WP:FP page) that best describes the image

Creator

NASA/Ben Smegelsky

• Support as nominator – (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 00:11, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
• Oppose – fails FP criterion #2, 1500 pixels minimum. Also there is too much tilt, excessive perspective/lens distortion. Bammesk (talk) 02:13, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

• Thanks! Would this one meet those criteria? (— 𝐬𝐝𝐒𝐝𝐬 — - talk) 04:40, 13 February 2024 (UTC)

• It is already on Commons: File:PACE Spacecraft Transport from Astrotech to SLC-40 (KSC-20240201-PH-JBS01 0036).jpg. Yann (talk) 19:22, 13 February 2024 (UTC)
• Sdsds, that's better, but it's noisy when viewed at full size. Also, when used in the satellite article, it doesn't show the satellite itself, so it's EV (FP criterion #5) isn't strong. Bammesk (talk) 02:10, 14 February 2024 (UTC)

Not Promoted --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 04:00, 23 February 2024 (UTC)